I hope that those authors say that their works are fair game for derivative works after they die, just like every other dead author Yep, that's what I said. :)
I might, however, question why they get so giddy about fanart, though. Just speculating a bit... I think fanart might be more likely to be a direct adaptation than fanfiction. A piece of fanart can be about depicting as precisely as possible a certain scene the book author described. That's way more obvious a message of "I admire what you wrote" than a piece of fanfiction that carries more ideas the fan came up with, which might be (mis)understood as "You did not put enough detail there", "I can write your story better than you" or "I want to tell my own story, but using yours as foundation is easier than making up one from scratch". Of course you get crazy what-if/out of character fanart, too, but there can easily be a bias of what the author sees or hears about.
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Date: 2010-05-08 08:40 am (UTC)Yep, that's what I said. :)
I might, however, question why they get so giddy about fanart, though.
Just speculating a bit... I think fanart might be more likely to be a direct adaptation than fanfiction.
A piece of fanart can be about depicting as precisely as possible a certain scene the book author described. That's way more obvious a message of "I admire what you wrote" than a piece of fanfiction that carries more ideas the fan came up with, which might be (mis)understood as "You did not put enough detail there", "I can write your story better than you" or "I want to tell my own story, but using yours as foundation is easier than making up one from scratch".
Of course you get crazy what-if/out of character fanart, too, but there can easily be a bias of what the author sees or hears about.
Thank you. :)